Thursday, March 22, 2012

moschate \MOS-keyt\, adjective:

Having a musky smell.

Though moschate has Latin roots, it was not used widely in English until the early 1800s. The word mosch meant "musky" in Latin and was used to describe the wine commonly known today at "muscat."

associate's walk

• When you approach an Associate in a Big Box Store and request directions to an item or a department, the Associate will "guide" you to the location, using a very specific, walk style. They will walk in front of you and their pace is slowed down, similar to being the first car in a motorcade.

I was at the local Kohls and got lost looking for housewares. I asked an associate and they led me to the section. She immediately locked into her associate's walk and I followed like a lemming

Trivia

Who is the only comedian to win a Grammy award as Best New Artist?

• Bob Newhart, in 1960, for his album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.

History

• Stamp Act: tax was imposed by Britain on the American colonies; it raised intense opposition (1765)
• Equal Rights Amendment: was approved by US Congress; it was never ratified by requisite majority of states (1972)
• Flying Wallendas: patriarch Karl Wallenda fell to his death from a tightrope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1978)
• Hale-Bopp: comet passed the closest to Earth till the year 4397 at a distance of 1.315 AU (1997)

Berfdays

• Sir Anthony Van Dyke 1599
• Johnny Evers 1883 - Baseball player
• Chico Marx 1887
• Louis L'Amour 1908 - Author
• Wilfrid Brambell 1912
• Karl Malden 1913 - Actor
• Virginia Grey 1917
• Ross Martin 1920
• Werner Klemperer 1920
• Marcel Marceau 1923 - Pantomimist
• Bill Wendell 1924
• Allen H. Neuharth 1924 - Founder of USA Today
• Easy Ed Macauley 1928
• Pat Robertson 1930
• Stephen Sondheim 1930 - Composer, lyricist
• William Shatner 1931 - Actor
• May Britt 1933
• J.P. McCarthy 1933
• M. Emmett Walsh 1935 - Actor
• Glen Campbell 1936
• Tom Flores 1937 - Football player
• Johnny Ferguson 1937
• Dave Keon 1940 - Hockey player
• Bruno Ganz 1941
• Barbara Parkins 1942
• George Benson 1943 - Singer, musician
• Keith Relf 1943 - Musician (Yardbirds)
• Jeremy Clyde 1944 - Actor, singer (Chad & Jeremy)
• Harry Vanda 1947 - Musician (The Easybeats)
• James Patterson 1947 - Author
• Wolf Blitzer 1948
• Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 - Composer
• Randy Hobbs 1948 - Musician (The McCoys)
• Fanny Ardent 1949 - Actress
• Bob Costas 1952 - Sportscaster
• James House 1955 - Country singer
• Lena Olin 1955 - Actress ("Alias")
• Stephani Mills 1957 - Actress, singer
• Matthew Modine 1959 - Actor
• Marcus Camby 1974 - Basketball player
• Cole Hauser 1975 - Actor
• Kellie Williams 1976 - Actress
• Reese Witherspoon 1976 - Actress ("Legally Blonde")
• John Otto 1977 - Musician (Limp Bizkit)